The Reel Rock 7 film tour will be coming to the Capital Region on Monday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m. when The Edge Halfmoon hosts the rock climbing film tour. The event is a benefit for the Thacher Climbing Coalition.

The seventh annual Reel Rock Film Tour brings the best in climbing and adventure films to local audiences across the globe, with more than 65,000 attending nearly 300 shows worldwide during the 2011 tour. The 2012 tour has already sold out dozens of shows both in the U.S. and abroad.

Reel Rock 7 features four films. Leading off will be Dura, Dura, featuring Chris Sharma, who has been the “king” of sport climbing for the past 15 years and has created a mecca for hard routes near his home in Catalunya, Spain. But now, the Czech “wunderkind,” 19-year-old Adam Ondra, has come to Sharma’s home turf to take the torch. Sharma and Ondra battle to establish the world’s first 5.15c route, while Sasha DiGiulian and Daila Ojeda shred women’s standards with strong ascents of their own.

The Shark’s Fin then chronicles legendary alpinist Conrad Anker’s 20-year obsession with The Shark’s Fin, a spectacular unclimbed granite buttress on the 6,310-meter Mount Meru in Indian. In 2008, Anker, with Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, endured a grueling 18-day push to within hundreds of feet of the summit only to be turned back. Three years later, the trio makes a tough decision to return in an attempt to claim one of climbing’s elusive first ascents.

American off-width climbing has spawned a counter-culture of rough and tumble characters who aren’t afraid to bleed their way up a route. In Wide Boys, the third film, two proper British lads, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, cross the pond to eat up the gnarliest wide cracks in the West, including the first ascent of the world’s hardest off-width known as Century Crack.

The event concludes with Honnold 3.0, featuring Alex Honnold, who has become known as the boldest solo climber of his generation. In this dangerous game, Honnold balances pure ambition with self-preservation as he wrestles with preparation for perhaps his biggest adventure yet – the Yosemite Triple. In under 19 hours, Honnold climbs Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome, almost all of it free solo.

Tickets to this event are $11 in advance at The Edge Halfmoon or online at www.imathlte.com/events/reelrock7. The Edge Halfmoon, the Capital Region’s brand new, state-of-the-art indoor climbing facility, is located on Route 9 in Halfmoon. For more information, go to www.theedgehalfmoon.com.

Tickets at the door will be $15.

The Thacher Climbing Coalition has as its goal the legalization of rock and ice climbing at John Boyd Thacher State Park, as well as to promote conservation of the Helderberg Escarpment, part of the largest and perhaps most beautiful limestone formation in the Northeast. For more information about the coalition, find them on Facebook or at: http://www.usaro.net/ThacherClimbingCoalition/

For more information about Reel Rock 7, or to view the trailer, go to www.reelrocktour.com.

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For more information about the event, contact promoter Garry Harrington at gharrington3165@hotmail.com or 603-209-5010.